The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-09-15
THE EDUCATION OF THE Flu.
TURE.

LUKE. rs
Manual Training at the National Con-
~vention
We have already referred to the
common sense address/of DR.. S. H.
Peabody, of the Uniyersity of Illinois,
on handtraining. 4
Under the above/head the Chicago
Tribune makes plea for a lore promi-
nent place for it in our public schools,
and gives some brief extracts from the
utterance of some other speakers who
discussed this subject at the recent
Educational Convention. We quote:
"At the proceedings Thursday, the
President Of the Department of Indus
trial Education made a strong plea for
it and argued that it should 60 hand in
hand with the academical system and
that manual work was favorable in it's
influence upon the purely intellectual.
Prof. Woodward, Of St. Louis, whose
Misunderstanding school has a national
reputation, said: 1T has been found
that there are methods of teaching and
employing children in kindergarten
schools, and [ believe that boys Of
fourteen can also be taught in manual
training without the book work suffer
ing a loss Numerous other instruct
ors gave their testimony as to it's value,
among them Prof. Caruthers, of Gin
cinnatti, who said that in that city
'drones had become hard-working
students.' At the dinner given by the
Prang Educational Company, which
was attended by a large representation
Of the most prominent people identi-
fed with art and industrial education
in this country, there were numerous
enthusiastic expressions of opinion in
favor of the new departure. At the
meeting of the Association yestoday
morning Gen Francis Walker, the
President of the famous Massachusetts
Inststute of Technology, made an ar
gument for manual training which
carried great weight with it and was
listened to with unusual interest.
1.-The report adopted by the Con
~ventian recognizes the value of the in
dustrial art. The next convention
will go further, we believe, and not
only recognize it's value, but will act
upon it and suggest the plan for
adopting it as part Of the free school
system. 1t is growing rapidly. The
school exhibit is itself a silent but
most powerful argument in it's favor
and a testimonial to its remarkable
growth. 1t is filled with the results
of manual training, both in art and
industry, and these exhibits dwarf all
the others both in interest and in
variety. They stand there an man
swerable argument. AS the system
which educates head and hand to-
gether; which rouse enthusiasm in
the pupil which gives an added value
to his academical training; which
develops the ideal faculty and tends to
bring forward the artistic talent of the
country; which gives to the boy or
girl something which is of practical
use to them !; which will send them
out into the world better prepared to
make a living; which gives them
habits of industry, and which educates
the hand and head to labor instead of
educating the wits to avoid labor
| this system is bound to be the future
reliance of our free schools. 1t has
come to stay. AS President Ordway
| said in his address: We need no
longer discuss whether the work shall
be introduced into the public schools.
1t is already there and will stay there.
What we need to discuss is the
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